King James IV of Scotland came to the throne in 1488. He was an able and visionary monarch whose administration united and maintained order in the Scottish highlands and lowlands. He encouraged manufacturing and shipbuilding, and created a navy. James IV also renewed Scotland’s alliance with France, although in 1503 he took an English wife, Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England.read more
There are ones who gleefully point out the Kabyles of the Atlas Mountains of Morrocco as the phenotypic paradigm of a people called “Berber” and by extension the “Moors”.read more
The African Frankincense: The Beloved Perfume of the Ancestral Guides of Punt
By Jide Uwechia
The Catholic church is one of the biggest buyers and users of incense in today’s world. Muslim Somalia, is the Roman Catholic’s Church biggest supplier. The Vatican mostly buys Somalian frankincense, the fabled perfume of the Gods of Punt, to burn for their own god Jesus the son of Mary. read more
… the son of a slaveholder and an almost white slave
who was so white that “the closest obsever could not
detect in his appearance any trace of African descent.”
His father sent him off for an education and trade and
he “married an estimable young white woman, and had
a family of five or six children,” all of this without
“the slightest knowledge of the [ ] African blood in
his veins, and no one in the neighborhood knew that
he was the son of an octoroon slave woman.read more
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